The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 19, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8780. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1941. ACING MOSCOW NAZI ARMIES FOREST FIRES RA LIGHTNING ' | - Y- Nazi Consul Moves Out AIDS FURY, HEATWAVE Hundreds of Blazes Re-| ported as High Tem- | peratures Preyail (RACKLING OF FLAMES | HEARD; SMOKE ROLLS Some Relief Is Promised After Seared Week of Blistering Weather SEATTLE, July 19 — After a seared week of blistering tempera- tures, lh\e Pacific Northwest today looked to possible relief from the heat and forest fires which have taken a toll of lives, timber and! grain. A thunder and lightning storm struck Seattle early this morning, | bringing a heavy downpour of rain which has greatly aided relief from | the serious ‘situation, (Continued to Page Two) ~he \\\NG@ @p o ¥ & %0 WASHINGTON—Recent months | of war in Europe have made some; significant changes in the habits| and the outlook of the President. He is more serious, more worried. Also he is more circumscribed. The latter is important, because it means that he sees fewer people, | loses some of his old contacts. | During his first eight years in, office, probably no President in his- tory was in closer touch with the| country as a whole than Franklin| Roosevelt. Not only did he see a| gfeat number of Congressmen, lab- | or leaders, business men and poli- | ticians during his daily routine, but he traveled more than any other President. Several times a year he| took turns round the country, kept, his ear to the ground, met all sorts| of people. Ever since the international em- ergency, he has stuck close to Wash- | ington. Not once has he got out in- ! to the Middle West, even,during the 1940 campaign. Seldom has he gone farther away than New York or down the Potomac. Thus he has missed the relaxation, the rest,| and the obvious joy he used to get| from his roving junkets. Also he has missed his old personal con- tacts. NOTE—The President boasts that he rests on a railroad trip, and this is really true. He seems to sleep bet- | ter on a Pullman, and on occasion orders have been given to the train engineer to stretch out a run be- | tween towns in order to give the| President extra sleep. MORE GOLD BRAID Roosevelt’s ‘contacts thus are limited by remaining in Washing- ton, and in Washington also, he is moré circumscribed than ever. He does not see nearly as many members of Congress and men from many walks of life as formerly. This is because he is concentrating so much time on national defense and foreign affairs. All important decisions in the State Department come across his desk. The freezing of Axis funds, the closing of German-Italian con- sulates, the speeches of Secretary Knox, have to get the President's 1 gt ol MRS ol B S TR (Continued on Page Four) ' | Boxes of diplomatic papers and equipment are moved out of the German Consulate’s office in New York as the Nazi staff members carry out the srder of President Roosevelt that all German consulate officials must leave the country because of improper activities. U. S, consulates in j Germany were closed in retaliation. Ba(;ger Choice R H Hin‘iley‘l \Reports Safiat German AlaskaBound On Inipedion Assistant Secretary of Com- merce Leaves Washing- | fon for Northland WASHINGTON, July 19—Robert H. Hinckley, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, left here last night for the westward for a two weeks’ Al- | aska inspection trip to include com- munications and airport programs. SWEDISH MUNITIONS TRAIN EXPLODES IN HEAD-ON COLLISION Division Has Cross- ed Sweden STOCKHOLM, July 19.—A Swed- BRITISH - BOMBERS WORKING‘ Four Nazi Svps ‘Probably. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_ PRICE TEN CENTS G IN PACIFIC N. W. i l Destroyed” - German | Cities Damaged LONDON, July 19.—RAF bombers “probably destroyed” four Nazi shipg totaling 22,000 tons off The Nethers | lands it is reported, It is said a group of Blenheims ; attacked a German convoy which | was escorted by anti-aircraft ships. | The British Air Ministry claims i’ that at least one-third of the Ger- | man cities of Muenster and Aachen . have been destroyed or seriously damaged by RAF air raids. U. 5. AGENTS RELEASED IN ITALY LAND Allowed fo Go fo Lishon Now that Axis/Officé4 ials H(fibound ROME, July 19—Members of the United States consular staffs in Italy and Greece, held in San Re- mo pending exchange of expelled Axis consular members from the United States, who are aboard the U. 8. naval transport West Point, have been released and will go to Lisbon. There they will board the West Point for America. Lo tfi?l?r And Eledra Southbound Two southbound PAA planes are in the air today, one Lodestar to Seattle and an Electra to Juneau from the Interior. i | | Ruui;'l port of Vladivostok is the key e realize their ambition to be undisputed m: 4 West or is forced to throw her Eastern army against Germany, Wrecks a Railroad Center asters of the Far East. If Ri GERMANS CUT THROUGH LINE AT SMOLENSK Reds Sirike Back af Ru- manian Oil Fields- Hold Giant Reserve AMERICAN EMBASSY EVACUATES MOSCOW | Battle at Gafi Stalin Line Turns fo Hand-fo- Hanflght (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Rounding out the fourth week cf the great offensive against Russia, the Germans are reported to be widening the Smolensk breach in | the Stalin line and are facing Mos- | cow. Russian reports, perhaps signifi- 4 |cantly, ommitted the usual claim ity of the Sea of Japan. Without it, the Japanese can never ussia suffers a decisive defeat i Japan may attack Siberia | of holding their ground while Ger- GIVES SWAT T0 HIGHWAY man armored might thus thrust within 230 miles of the Russian As part of the U. 8. Embassy istaff left Moscow for Kazan in [came word from Istanbul that the | Russians gre holding four million | the Communist capital. The source ‘ol' this report, an Axis official sta- To AlASKA break of the war, said this fresn army is - waiting behind Moscow es in a carefully timed counter of- Member of House of Com- | rensive. | The Russians are said to be filled with fury as the blitz of- Makes Statement S and related that sectors of stubborn PRINCE RUPERT, B.' C. Julyifighting continued there during the Conservative opposition in th2 ped Air Force was also active House of Commons, sald in an in-| through the night against motor- lumbia and Alaska International' German airdromes, and are report- Highway “project, which In my eq to have destroyed 32 Nazi planes poned until after the war. Nobody | past three days. in the United States really wants| wnhijle the Red Army minimized really insistent about it.” |away from the center of the long Hanson Is o his way to 8kag-)front, Germany claimed her troops capital from the southwest. | the Tartar republic 450 miles east, | men~ reserve for the defense of tioned in Moscow until the out- | réady to roll against German forc- mons, Now Northbound, | e fensive concentrated on Smolensk, 19—R. B. Hanson, leader . of the; night. The communique said the terview here, that the Brlmh-cu—“ued and mechanized troops and definite opinion, could well be post- | yesterday with a total of 71 in the it and only the Alaska people are|tne German offensive in sectors WAY. | with Rumanian comrades are Cross- ing the Dnestr River in several places ir an advance on Russian Bessarabla and the Ukraine. There The Lodestar arrived in Juneau, lish munitions train exploded in a | head-on collision with an express with nine passengers booked on through to Seattle and two for Ju- neau. Seattle passengers were: Car- oline’ Heiken, Frank Carlisle, Jo- seph Deutchle, Milo J. Warner, Herman Gustavson, Walter John- son, Carl Thornton, Milton Stapen, and Mrs. Lewis Stapen. Getting off here were: Mrs. Alice Freeman and Mrs. Irene Wood. Aerial bombs wreck trains, bridges and railroad tracks during a day- light raid by the Royal Air Force on the important Hazebrouck rail Junction in Nazi-occupied northern France. Photo was made from one of the attacking British warplanes. PANTAGES' WIDOW DIES FROM HEART ATTACK ON YACHT have been previous German reports to this effect. The Germans also | claimed the breaking of enemy re- sistance as Pinnish and German —_— |™" (Continued to Page Two) | Diplomafic Sociély's bead, Selected “Miss Wisconsin, 1941,” Betty Anne Miller, a student at Milwaukee State Teachers College, ruled as queen over.the Milwaukee Mid-summer. Festival, July 12-20. She will represent her State in the “Miss America” contest in Atlan- tic City in September. Dr. Nulfing Passes Away FRANMINGHAM, Mass.,, July 19 —Dr. Wallace Nutting, 80, interna- tionally known author, illustrator, antiquarian and retired eclergyman, died today at his home here. e ————— lat Juneau, !train at the Krylbo station north |of Stockholm today. The initial detonation was heard | for miles, and the series of shell bursts continued for hours. Twelve persons were injured and taken to a hospital. None were killed. Others took refuge in air raid shelters. The transport of a German di- vision across Sweden from Norway to Finland is reported to have been virtually finished at the end of last week. ROBERT COUGHLIN IS T0 BE MARRIED SEATTLE, July 19—A marriage license has been issued to Robert E. Coughlin, clerk of the United States District Court of the First Division of Alaska, headquarters and Minnie Lee, of Ketchikan, Alaska. - Helium - gas - first was: observed on the sun, i i discovered gold on the Brazilian plaieau in- 1693, lnaviuble for 1,000 miles. The Lodestar arrived in Juneau at 12 o'clock and left at 1 o'clock this afternoon, The Electra leaving Fairbanks at noon is expected to arrive in Ju- neau at 5 o'clock this afternoon with the following aboard: John Schweg- ler, Leon DeLong, Fred' Craddock, Curt Reisinger, Mrs. Mable Wel- T«‘;n, Vern Rowley and Gust Drusu-| By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 19—If this had been a “regular” World war, |there might have been something STO(K ouo"A“o"s Iu‘» report about what goes on in Washington - diplomatic circles. | T might have been able to say NEW YORK, July 19—Closing “Boy-0-boy, how the ‘allied’ dip- quotation of American Can today is/lomatic corps has taken up the 89, Anaconda 28%, Bethlehem Steel Soviet embassy!” But no such 75%, Commonwealth and Southern thing has happened, simply be- %, Curtiss Wright 9%, General cause this isn't a “regular” war Motors 39, Kennecott 38%, United and because as a result of that States Steel 57%, Pound $4.03 “. there is no such thing as diplo- . | matic in Washington DOW, JONES AVERAGES imorc il i The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 127.98. rails 2051, utilities 1851. ALl ifpray Tt BoviER S, AL | there has been a big society affair In high water periods the Ori- attended by His Excellency, Con- noco River in South America is Stantine A. Oumansky, and also the Right Honorable the Viscount Dead as Five-Power Padi; Sifuation Is Complicated Onee since Nazi Germany start- ' Halifax, who holds the same title for Great Britain that Mr. Ou-| mansky holds for the Union of| Soviet Socialist Republics, Herr| Hans Thomsen, “charge d'affaires| ad interim” for Germany, was not present. Nor wcs anyone else. who might cause those two diplomatic embarrassment. Mr. Oumansky and Lord Hali- fax chatted genially. They smiled and laughed and shook hands and parted with an “I'll be-seeing-you” wave and nod. . Behind /this simple outward dis- play of social graces is one of the most complicated and confused dip-} lomatic situations this capital ever| has seen. A month or so ago, Herr Stricken While Swimming NAZIPL A NES from Vessel Off Cafa- lina Island AVALON, CATALINA ISLAND, July 19—Stricken with a heart at- tack while swimming, Mrs. Lois Pantages, 57-year-old widow of the late theater magnate, died a few minutes later yesterday on Ther yacht La Pan, Her husband died in 1936. They were married in 1906. Grand- daughter Erin Considine was the only member of her family with her at death. Two sons, Rodney and Lloyd, met the yacht when it took her body to San Pedro last night. A daughter, Mrs. John Con- sidine Jr., wife of a film producer, also survives, 5. NELSON FILES ' FOR BANKRUPTCY Samuel A. Nelson filed a peti- tion for bankruptey in Federal Thomsen and Mr. Oumansky were T (Continued ou Page Six) Court today, before Judge George T | P. Alexander. ' MAKE ATTACK ON SHIPPING Berlin Statement Claims One Vessel Sunk by Bombs, Others Hit (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) In Germany’s war on Great Britain, Hitler'’s High Command re- ported today that a 1,500-ton freighter was sunk by bombs and two other merchantmen hit off the English coast last night. The communique also says no British planes penetrated German territory yesterday or last night. The Berlin statement alse says a luftwaffe attacked Alexandria, British naval base in Egypt, during the night.